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The Town is Shaun Prescott’s full-length fiction debut and the sophomore novel from The Lifted Brow – the avant-garde Australian literary mag that, since moving into trade publishing last year, has championed writers whose ideas and execution run...

Anna George’s first book was the well-regarded crime thriller What Came Before . Her new novel, The Lone Child , is less criminal and more psychological in focus, but it’s just as thrilling. It’s a story about the effects of motherhood and the moral...

In The Vandemonian War, historian Nick Brodie turns his attention to one of the most contentious and fiercely debated events in Australian history: the frontier conflict that erupted between Aboriginal inhabitants and British colonisers in Van...

It’s quite the ballsy thing for a writer to name-drop Raymond Carver smack-bang in the middle of their own collection of short stories, and almost a direct challenge when they do it more than once. “Carver, that’s advanced,” remarks an impressed...

This is the third novel in translation from Eka Kurniawan, an Indonesian wunderkind whose Beauty Is a Wound was an unlikely smash in 2015 and was followed the same year by Man Tiger , which made the Man Booker International Prize longlist in 2016...

He may have grown up on a wheat and wool farm, but Garry Disher is far from sentimental when it comes to life on the land. His latest novel is about a girl bought for a handful of coins by a villainous scrap man and pressed into a life of drudgery...